Subpixel font rendering in gutsy

[Alex Jones]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 23:45 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> Very small (12px in height and less) Monospace fonts (such as those used
> by gnome-terminal) will not be rendered this way because several users
> have expressed dislike of the effect; if you want to see whether you
> prefer them with the effect, remove
> the /etc/fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf symbolic link and
> restart gnome-terminal (you need to close them all to do this).

I really, really can't help but feel that we are making a mess of this
by specifically singling out Bitstream Vera Mono.

Other fonts have single-pixel-wide stems too, and at many different
sizes, and in many different configurations of size and hinting
settings.
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